Marc Levitt is the Host/Creative Director of the nationally award
winning, 15 years old radio show, "Action Speaks", a topic driven
panel based radio show taped at Providence's AS
220 and broadcast in 2009-10 on over 250 radio stations.
The goal of Action Speaks is to use less appreciated moments in United
States history as points of departure for discussions around their context
and contemporary implications. Our Presenting Station is WGBH
Boston.
More info: www.MarcLevitt.org/radiohost.htm

Action
Speaks topics have included: The
introduction of Dasani Water by Coca-Cola and the privatization of water.
Origin of the Credit Card. 1965 Immigration Act. The first World Series
game broadcast over a national radio network. The American Occupation
of Japan. The 1999 Anti-Globalization march in Seattle, Washington. Birth
of the Christian Coalition. The Sugar Hill Gang and the mainstreaming
of Hip Hop. The 1918 Flu. The Stonewall Riot. Zoot Suit Rebellion. Publication
of ‘Our Bodies Ourselves’. The San Francisco General Strike
of 1934. The ‘Checkers’ Speech of Richard Nixon. The Loving
Case and the legality of ‘inter-racial’ marriage. The 1913
Armory Show that introduced European modern art to audiences in the United
States.